Leading international professional associations have issued a joint statement taking a clear stance on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and calling for a scientific and evidence-based presentation of ...

Catatonia is often dramatically portrayed as a condition that belongs in horror movies, presenting someone as completely motionless or immobile for shock value. But it’s more than being “unresponsive.

Catatonia is an experience associated with a person taking a rigid or mute stance. Aspects of catatonia can also include unusual posturing, repetitive movements, repeating speech, and agitation. It is ...

Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm and it stays in that ...

Despite all the criticism of DSM-5, the new classification of psychiatric diseases has one triumph to report: bringing back the diagnosis of catatonia as an almost independent disease entity. The new ...

Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm, and it stays in that ...